This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Talking to white cishet women about gender is already exhausting, but now that experience has been inflated into a studio blockbuster.
Greta Gerwig has always given off a lot of red flags in her feminism, but Barbie lifts the curtain on all of that, and what’s revealed isn’t just predictably oversimplified, but also downright regressive. Her whole career is defined by making her stories about women as accessible as possible. This is simultaneously her biggest strength and weakness. On one…
Good grief this was disappointing.
When I put Cyberpunk: Edgerunners side by side with something like Blade Runner, Ghost In The Shell, or Ergo Proxy, I’m reminded that there are two different ways to approach the cyberpunk/scifi genre. In the latter, the future is a concept ripe with hypotheticals that can reveal facets of our humanity that wouldn’t show in the currently known world. Scifi is less about the aesthetic and more about the philosophies that the concepts push. And…
Norea is based and Hamas pilled, but everything else fizzles out in the end and turns into neoliberal shite where the good corporation wins against the bad corporation and willingly redistributes wealth or something. It's a shame because things were really ramping up to an interesting conclusion, but instead of changing the system in any meaningful way, the main characters just do some bullshit philanthropy while retaining their class position. Would've been better if they became maoist third worldists, but at least the Twitter Yuri is good though.
I honestly can't tell whether everyone in this show is gay or homophobic.
White women's joker. The more "literally me" reviews I'm exposed to, the more my sanity withers away. Lady Bird has taken over my brain like a goddam tumor. The level of brainrot I feel around Lady bird fans is so intense that it's almost medically concerning. None of you fuckers are real, you're all a bunch of aliens from fucking Neptune. I took a psych class once in highschool and I can scientifically confirm that it is imposible for the…
